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Bolivian state-owned telecommunications company Entel has established contact with the Tupac Katari satellite, which the Andean nation put into orbit in December, President Evo Morales said. continue reading »

Argentine energy company Pluspetrol plans to invest some $160 million in 2014 to drill new wells and conduct seismic surveying in eastern Bolivia, according to Bolivian state-owned energy firm YPFB. continue reading »

A mob hung a 24-year-old man in a town on the Bolivian altiplano on Monday after beating him and accusing him of committing a murder last weekend, a prosecutor and other local officials said.
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Bolivia will treat 4.5 million tons of toxic mining waste, accumulated over several decades in the southwestern part of the country, at a Chinese concentration plant in the Andean region of Potosi, authorities said Saturday. continue reading »

At least 13 people died and 26 were injured in a mudslide along a stretch of highway in central Bolivia's Yungas region, police said Tuesday. The incident occurred Monday afternoon some 200 kilometers (124 miles) from La Paz on the highway linking the capital with the city of Caranavi, highway patrol officer Julio Venegas told the state-run ABI news agency. continue reading »

Bolivia's government inaugurated construction works Saturday to expand the international section of the eastern city of Santa Cruz's Viru Viru airport, the nation's largest, with an investment of $4.5 million. continue reading »

Bolivia has enacted a law that allows the state to revoke mining concessions without paying compensation, a measure aimed at recovering control of idle, privately held land, President Evo Morales said. continue reading »

Bolivian President Evo Morales said Friday that Spain's Abertis Infraestructuras SA and Aena would not be compensated for the nationalization of their Sabsa unit, which had managed the Andean nation's three largest airports. continue reading »

The discovery of mollusk shells at a midden in the Bolivian Amazon indicates that hunter-gatherers had a presence in the area 10,400 years ago, much earlier than previously known, archaeologists said. The find was made near the Amazonian city of Trinidad in Beni continue reading »